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Oswego County's Web site, www.oswegocounty.com, continues to be a popular online destination that attracts county residents and visitors alike. Last year over 5.2 million hits were made to the Web address, with total visitors amounting to over 443,500. Those are impressive numbers, showing that both residents and tourists visit the various county departments and area businesses for information.

For many years, the tourism pages of the Web site attracted the most usage, because visitors could access fishing information, accommodations, charters and guide service information from our site.

However, since the county's Real Property Tax Services database came on-line, it has proven to the most popular destination for Web site visitors. Residents, banks, realtors, attorneys, and abstract companies can learn about assessments and property descriptions without driving to the County Office Building in Oswego. Senior programmer John St. John of the county's Central Services department created the database. It was especially popular shortly before the county's tax auction this past fall.

Other popular pages of the Web site are the community links section with hyperlinks to county businesses and organizations, Board of Elections, County Clerk's office, county news releases, directory of news media serving Oswego County, Sheriff's Department, and County Legislature.

Visitors can download voter registration forms, motor vehicle forms, tourism publications or even the county's comprehensive plan. In fact, the most popular form to be downloaded and printed by visitors is the Oswego County Government Directory, which lists county and other municipal elected and appointed officials.

Here are some interesting Web statistics:

• The Web site has over 14,000 visitors each day. Tuesday is the most popular day to visit Oswego County via the Internet.
• Last year, 27,973 visitors "bookmarked" the site to return to it again. Last year, each visitor made over 11 "hits" to the site.
• The Web site attracted an international audience as well. Residents from Canada, Australia, Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, European Union, Germany, China and Korea sought out information on Oswego County.

County businesses may also take advantage of Internet visitors to the site. If your business or non-profit group is not hyperlinked to the county site, you are missing a large audience. Sites that meet that county policy and guidelines are eligible for hyperlinks. Details and guidelines for the hyperlink policy are listed at http://www.oswegocounty.com/linkpolicy.html.

Our county was among the first in the state to create and utilize a Web site to provide information on county services and programs, along with tourism information. We were the first to provide live election returns on the Web. In fact, the county received a national award recognizing the efforts of the Department of Promotion and Tourism in creating the Web site.

Our county's a popular place to visit, both in person and via the World Wide Web!